Penélope Cruz, who stars in new Ridley Scott movie The Counsellor, admits
to crazy fears and says she is not always the 'centred' person people
believe her to be

Penélope Cruz is usually totally calm and cool during interviews, answering questions about her movies and career but deflecting anything personal, rarely giving any insight into her inner feelings.

Surprisingly, she opened up in an interview in London's Dorchester Hotel, confessing: "I have so many fears. I have become an expert at hiding them but I am so full of them."

Cruz, who won an Oscar for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, added with a laugh: "I'm not giving you examples because they are all so crazy. Everybody thinks I'm so centred and relaxed but it's so opposite to what goes on inside me. But I've been working on it all my life, so it gets better."

The 39-year-old hinted at temptations when she said: "You can go left or right and you know if you go in one direction it might be better for you but sometimes you need to try the other to realise it's not for you. But I know darkness enough to know that I'm not going to feed that monster. It is not the path that I want for me . . . I'm not interested in exploring that part."

Cruz was talking about her role in Ridley Scott's new movie The Counsellor, based on an original screenplay by author Cormac McCarthyand also starring Cruz's husband of three years, Javier Bardem, and Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt. She portrays Laura, the fiancee of The Counsellor (Michael Fassbender) who finds herself way out of her depth when an unplanned series of events lead to tragic consequences for them both.

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It is the reclusive McCarthy's first screenplay although several of his novels, All the Pretty Horses, which also starred Cruz, The Road and No Country for Old Men, starring Bardem, have been made into movies. "I never got to meet him when we did All The Pretty Horses. He was never on the set and was a very mysterious figure. But with The Counsellor he was on the set every day and I think everyone was a little nervous about the idea at first but he was so available and easygoing that we drove him crazy with questions."